We hope that you’re enjoying the drinks association’s new-look drinks central website. One of the additional services we are now providing to our members is ‘drinks vacancies’. This service has been developed to assist companies during the recruitment process and also to alert members of the drinks industry to new openings. Posting of vacancies on … Continued

At the drinks association, we’re eagerly counting down the days until next month’s Australian drinks Awards 2016. It’s a night that wouldn’t be possible without the support of corporate partners such as BevChain. BevChain’s ‘industry solution’ enables businesses in the beverage industry to tap into a single, dedicated industry supply chain network and benefit from … Continued

Larry Cherubino Wines has been awarded Best Value Winery of the Year in the 2017 Qantas epiQure Halliday Wine Companion Awards. The award, considered one of the Australian wine industry’s highest honours, recognises producers with a portfolio consisting of the most outstanding wines that are great value for money. James Halliday’s 2017 Australian Wine Companion, considered … Continued

The Liquor Stores Association (LSA) has announced the launch of the 2016 Retail Liquor Industry Awards for Excellence, with the nomination period now open for LSA members and stakeholders to be recognised for their hard work. Established in 1996, the awards are now considered the pinnacle accolade for the retail liquor industry in NSW and ACT. Retailers, suppliers, … Continued

The Liquor Stores Association ACT has launched a major campaign in conjunction with local liquor store operators this week, in an attempt to put a stop to bottle shop tax increases in the state. The ACT liquor licence fee is already the highest in Australia and ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr MLA, is lobbying for it … Continued

Drinks International reported last week that Doug Bagley is set to leave Diageo. Best remembered as the head of Travel Retail, Bagley’s exit comes amid Diageo’s split of its Global Travel & Middle East unit to create a distinct London-based Travel Retail Unit. The report states Diageo’s intentions with the split are to remove the “regional complexity” of … Continued

Last year, nearly 300 bartenders across Victoria embraced their inner-U.G.L.Y. (Understanding, Generous, Likeable, You) and raised a whopping $214,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation’s U.G.L.Y. Bartender of the Year campaign. Daniel Lines at the Benalla Bowling Club was one of our 2015 U.G.L.Y.-ies, and he is back again this year to see if he can better … Continued

Emmanuel Cadieu, Head Sommelier at Merivale’s award-winning restaurant, Felix, recently won the La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs Australian Young Sommeliers Competition. The competition involves intense and gruelling testing conditions, including a written theory, blind and service test. Cadieu won the competition against six other Australian finalists – testament to his skill and expertise – and will now go … Continued

On Monday 25th July, the Lens Evans Tutorial was presented with the McWilliam’s Maurice O’Shea Award, the Australian wine industry’s most prestigious accolade. The Lens Evans Tutorial, conceived by the late Len Evans AO OBE, is an exclusive wine course held annually in the Hunter Valley. The five-day course sees 12 selected scholars exposed to … Continued

The Chase Distillery is the UK’s first and only single estate distillery and creator of the world’s first super-premium English potato vodka, which was voted World’s Best Vodka at the San Francisco Spirits Competition. Founder, William Chase, started off a humble potato farmer. After 20 years and continual price pressure from the supermarkets he supplied, … Continued